Research Evaluation

1991 - 2025

Current editor(s): Julia Melkers, Emanuela Reale and Thed van Leeuwen

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2020, volume 29, articles 3

Determinants of quality of research environment: An assessment of the environment submissions in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework in 2014 pp. 231-244

Mehmet Pinar and Emre Unlu

Fast growth of the number of proceedings papers in atypical fields in the Czech Republic is a likely consequence of the national performance-based research funding system pp. 245-262

Jiri Vanecek and Ondrej Pecha

Millennial researchers in a metric-driven scholarly world: An international study pp. 263-274

David Nicholas, Eti Herman, Hamid R Jamali, Abdullah Abrizah, Cherifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Jie Xu, Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo, Anthony Watkinson, Tatiana Polezhaeva and Marzena Świgon

Changing research on research evaluation: A critical literature review to revisit the agenda pp. 275-288

Duncan A Thomas, Maria Nedeva, Mayra M Tirado and Merle Jacob

How to select the best: Selection procedures of innovation agencies pp. 289-299

Peter Biegelbauer, Thomas Palfinger and Sabine Mayer

DARE to be different? A novel approach for analysing diversity in collaborative research projects pp. 300-315

Frédérique Bone, Michael M Hopkins, Ismael Rafols, Jordi Molas-Gallart, Puay Tang, Gail Davey and Antony M Carr

Unravelling the panel contribution upon peer review evaluation of numerous, unstructured and highly interdisciplinary research proposals pp. 316-326

Theodoros Baimpos, Nils Dittel and Roumen Borissov

What effects does international mobility have on scientists’ careers? A systematic review pp. 327-351

Nicolai Netz, Svenja Hampel and Valeria Aman

A superb example of policy evaluation pp. 352-353

Diana Hicks

2020, volume 29, articles 2

Tax incentives for R&D: supporting innovative scale-ups? pp. 121-134

Jessica Mitchell, Giuseppina Testa, Miguel Sanchez-Martinez, Paul N Cunningham and Katarzyna Szkuta

Introducing and testing an advanced quantitative methodological approach for the evaluation of research centers: a case study on sustainability science pp. 135-149

Omar Kassab, Rüdiger Mutz and Hans-Dieter Daniel

Should we fund research randomly? An epistemological criticism of the lottery model as an alternative to peer review for the funding of science pp. 150-157

Baptiste Bedessem

A participatory method to assess the contribution of agricultural research to societal changes in developing countries pp. 158-170

Guy Faure, Genowefa Blundo-Canto, Agathe Devaux-Spatarakis, Jean Louis Le Guerroué, Syndhia Mathé, Ludovic Temple, Aurélie Toillier, Bernard Triomphe and Etienne Hainzelin

The role of Egyptian State Awards in changing researchers’ performance in the science and technology sector pp. 171-190

Bahaa Ibrahim

Playing the fields: Theorizing research impact and its assessment pp. 191-202

Kate Williams

The field-specific citation and usage patterns of book literature in the Book Citation Index pp. 203-214

Pei-Shan Chi

Like-for-like bibliometric substitutes for peer review: Advantages and limits of indicators calculated from the ep index pp. 215-230

Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro and Ricardo Brito

2020, volume 29, articles 1

Assessing societal impact of SSH in an engaging world: focus on productive interaction, creative pathways and enhanced visibility of SSH research pp. 1-3

Jack Spaapen and Gunnar Sivertsen

Methods for mapping the impact of social sciences and humanities—A literature review pp. 4-21

David Budtz Pedersen, Jonas Følsgaard Grønvad and Rolf Hvidtfeldt

Who benefits from ex ante societal impact evaluation in the European funding arena? A cross-country comparison of societal impact capacity in the social sciences and humanities pp. 22-33

Stefan P L de Jong and Reetta Muhonen

From productive interactions to impact pathways: Understanding the key dimensions in developing SSH research societal impact pp. 34-47

Reetta Muhonen, Paul Benneworth and Julia Olmos-Peñuela

Conceptualizing the societal impact of research in terms of elements of logic models: a survey of researchers in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 48-65

Nelius Boshoff and Stefan P L de Jong

Normal versus extraordinary societal impact: how to understand, evaluate, and improve research activities in their relations to society? pp. 66-70

Gunnar Sivertsen and Ingeborg Meijer

Capacities, capabilities, and the societal impact of the humanities pp. 71-76

Eiríkur Smári Sigurðarson

Efficiency evaluation of S&T resource allocation using an accurate quantification of the time-lag effect and relation effect: a case study of Chinese research institutes pp. 77-86

Weizhen Yue, Jun Gao and Weilan Suo

Performing under ‘the baton of administrative power’? Chinese academics’ responses to incentives for international publications pp. 87-99

Xin Xu

It is not all about performance: Importance of the funding formula in the allocation of performance-based research funding in England pp. 100-119

Mehmet Pinar

2019, volume 28, articles 4

Scholarly understanding, mediating artefacts and the social impact of research in the educational sciences pp. 295-303

Terhi Esko and Reijo Miettinen

Money, morale, and motivation: a study of the Output-Based Research Support Scheme in University College Dublin pp. 304-312

Lai Ma

Measuring scientific impact of fisheries and aquaculture research-for-development projects in South East Asia and the Pacific pp. 313-325

Kiros Hiruy, Ray Murphy, Tom Lewis, William T White and Steven W Purcell

Developing an evaluation framework for university-driven technology-based, innovation for inclusive development (UTI4ID) projects pp. 326-343

L Botha, S S Grobbelaar and W G Bam

The balancing role of evaluation mechanisms in organizational governance—The case of publicly funded research institutions pp. 344-354

Junwen Luo, Gonzalo Ordóñez-Matamoros and Stefan Kuhlmann

Improving access to finance for young innovative enterprises with growth potential: Evidence of impact of R&D grant schemes on firms' outputs pp. 355-369

Giuseppina Testa, Katarzyna Szkuta and Paul N Cunningham

European Research Council: excellence and leadership over time from a gender perspective pp. 370-382

Núria Bautista-Puig, Carlos García-Zorita and Elba Mauleón

Do we need a book citation index for research evaluation? pp. 383-393

Yves Gingras and Mahdi Khelfaoui

Using mixed methods to map vaguely defined research areas pp. 394-404

Lise Degn, Niels Mejlgaard and Jesper Wiborg Schneider

2019, volume 28, articles 2

Retraction: A response to Hansson and Polk (2018) “Assessing the impact of transdisciplinary research: The usefulness of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact” pp. e1-e1

Brian M Belcher, Luisa F Ramirez, Rachel Davel and Rachel Claus

Government programs for university–industry partnerships: Logics, design, and implications for academic science pp. 109-122

Emina Veletanlić and Creso Sá

Making a difference in the real world? A meta-analysis of the quality of use-oriented research using the Research Quality Plus approach pp. 123-135

Robert K D McLean and Kunal Sen

Building a culture of impact in an international agricultural research organization: Process and reflective learning pp. 136-144

Genowefa Blundo-Canto, Bernard Triomphe, Guy Faure, Danielle Barret, Aurelle de Romemont and Etienne Hainzelin

Creating research impact through the productive interactions of an individual: an example from South African research on maritime piracy pp. 145-157

Nelius Boshoff and Mpho Sefatsa

How is gender being addressed in the international development evaluation literature? A meta-evaluation pp. 158-168

Steven Lam, Warren Dodd, Jane Whynot and Kelly Skinner

Field patterns of scientometric indicators use for presenting research portfolio for assessment pp. 169-181

Emanuel Kulczycki

The impact of Ph.D. funding on time to Ph.D. completion pp. 182-195

Hugo Horta, Mattia Cattaneo and Michele Meoli

A response to Hansson and Polk (2018) “Assessing the impact of transdisciplinary research: The usefulness of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact” pp. 196-201

Brian M Belcher, Luisa F Ramirez, Rachel Davel and Rachel Claus

Comments to Belcher et al. 2018’s critique of Hansson and Polk 2018 pp. 202-205

Stina Hansson and Merritt Polk

Evaluation of research in social sciences and humanities pp. 206-208

Thomas Heinze and Arlette Jappe

2019, volume 28, articles 1

Introduction to special section: Keynotes from STI 2017 pp. 1-1

Diana Hicks

Les indicateurs sont morts, vive les indicateurs! Towards a political economy of S&T indicators: A critical overview of the past 35 years pp. 2-6

Rémi Barré

S&T indicators in the wild: Contextualization and participation for responsible metrics pp. 7-22

Ismael Rafols

Multi/inter/transdisciplinary assessment: A systemic framework proposal to evaluate graduate courses and research teams pp. 23-36

Talita Moreira de Oliveira, Livio Amaral and Roberto Carlos dos Santos Pacheco

Formative, embedded evaluation to strengthen interdisciplinary team science: Results of a 4-year, mixed methods, multi-country case study pp. 37-50

Susan Roelofs, Nancy Edwards, Sarah Viehbeck and Cody Anderson

Challenge-led interdisciplinary research in practice: Program design, early career research, and a dialogic approach to building unlikely collaborations pp. 51-62

Chris Gibson, Tamantha Stutchbury, Victoria Ikutegbe and Nicole Michielin

Referees or sponsors? The role of evaluators in the promotion of research scientists in a public research organization pp. 63-72

Miriam Glennie, Michael O’Donnell, Michelle Brown and John Benson

Does counting change what is counted? Potential for paradigm change through performance metrics pp. 73-83

Ann Rudinow Sætnan, Gunhild Tøndel and Bente Rasmussen

The missing link: How university managers mediate the impact of a performance-based research funding system pp. 84-93

Jonas Krog Lind

Understanding the use and usability of research evaluation studies1,2 pp. 94-107

Katrin Milzow, Anke Reinhardt, Sten Söderberg and Klaus ZinöckerDeceased